With the weekend approaching, why not treat yourself with some ‘Me Time’ and just relax while watching content you might have missed? If you have a subscription to Apple TV+, let me assist you in finding out about the 15 best movies available on Apple TV+ that you can watch. So go through this list and find a movie that fits you the best.
1. Napoleon
- Release Date– November 22, 2023
- Cast– Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Anna Mawn, Tahar Rahim, Jannis Niewöhner, Edouard Philipponnat, Rupert Everett, Matthew Needham
- Director– Ridley Scott
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.3/ 58%
Napoleon is a biopic revolving around the man who turned the history of France upside down, Napoléon Bonaparte. It shows the origin and rise to power of the French commander from the viewpoint of his beloved wife Josephine. Joaquin Phoenix takes up the role of Napoleon and carries it out with utmost perfection. This movie is something you should watch for a captivating story and masterful cinematics that will leave you in awe.
2. The Banker
- Release Date– March 2, 2020
- Cast– Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, Jessie T. Usher, Taylor Black, Colm Meaney
- Director– George Nolfi
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7.3/ 78%
Based on the extraordinary true story of Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, The Banker takes us back to the 1960s when these two businessmen found a dangerous and ingenious way to walk around the racist business establishments of the time.
The movie on Apple TV+ revolves around how these two black men hired a working-class white boy to be the face of their business while they pretended to be a janitor and a chauffeur. However, the federal agency got the scent of their scheme and to find out what happened next, watch The Banker this weekend on Apple TV+.
3. Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Release Date– June 17, 2022
- Cast– Cooper Raiff, Vanessa Burghardt, Dakota Johnson, Odeya Rush, Leslie Mann, Raúl Castillo, Evan Assante, Brad Garrett
- Director– Cooper Raiff
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7.3/ 85%
Cha Cha Real Smooth brings us Andrew, a 22-year-old young man fresh out of college who is living in New Jersey and has no idea where to go with his future. As a side gig, he works for Bar Mitzvahs and while attending one, he realizes that he has a real talent for organizing parties. As he sets out to do his own thing, he gets numerous jobs as he befriends a single mother and her autistic teenage daughter. This movie is a one-of-a-kind, coming-of-age movie that is quite a heartwarming watch.
4. Finch
- Release Date– November 5, 2021
- Cast– Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Skeet Ulrich, Oscar Avila, Marie Wagenman
- Director– Miguel Sapochnik
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.9/74%
Movies revolving around a post-apocalyptic setting are generally fitted with a rather ominous tone. However, Finch brings us a rather heartwarming take. This movie takes place in a time where a solar flare has completely burnt out Earth’s ozone layer turning the planet into a wasteland with people trying their best to fight for survival. Finch Weinberg, a robotics engineer, lives alone with his dog Goodyear, and a helper robot named Dewey.
Now, Finch is slowly dying of radiation poisoning, and to make sure his dog is taken care of when he is gone, he creates a robot called Jeff. The robot is built specifically to take care of and protect Goodyear once Finch succumbs to his disease.
5. Flora and Son
- Release Date– February 23, 2024
- Cast– Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Sophie Vavasseur, Kelly Thornton, Keith McErlean, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Director– John Carney
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7/ 93%
Flora and Son is a truly heartwarming movie on Apple TV+ revolving around a single mother and her rebellious son. This movie introduces us to Flora and her son Max who has lost his way and has gone down a path of pickpocketing. One day, he gets arrested and the police recommend Fiona to introduce him to new hobbies and that is when she rescues a beat-up guitar from a dumpster and gets her son introduced to an out-of-business musician. This movie is something that might make you shed a tear or two for how heartwarming it is.
6. Greyhound
- Release Date– June 12, 2020
- Cast– Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Rob Morgan, Tom Brittney, Chet Hanks, Karl Glusman, Grayson Russell, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Devin Druid, Michael Benz
- Director– Aaron Schneider
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7/ 78%
Greyhound is a movie inspired by true events and takes us back to the greatest war humanity has ever fought, World War 2. This movie introduces us to U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause, who has been tasked to take a fleet of soldiers to the frontlines across the Atlantic Ocean in his first crossing and he hopes that it goes well. However, his fleet gets ambushed by German U-boats and now it’s up to him to save the lives of his men and get them through the Atlantic Ocean.
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
- Release Date– October 20, 2023
- Cast– Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Brendan Fraser, Jesse Plemons, Louis Cancelmi
- Director– : Martin Scorsese
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7.6/ 93%
The premise of Killers of The Flower Moon takes us to the 1920s and introduces us to the Osage Indian tribe that lives in Oklahoma. It also brings us Ernest Burkhart who has just been discharged from the US Army and has returned to the same area to work for his uncle.
However, since the Indians living there discovered oil on their land and became wealthy, the people of the Osage Tribe started to get murdered one by one. This attracted the attention of the FBI who stepped in to find out who is behind these killings.
8. Devotion
- Release Date– November 23, 2022
- Cast– Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Serinda Swan, Joe Jonas, Daren Kagasoff, Christina Jackson, Nick Hargrove, Thomas Sadoski, Thad Luckinbill
- Director– J.D. Dillard
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.6/ 81%
Bringing us the inspiring true story of Naval Pilot Jesse Brown, the first black man to be an aviator in the U.S Navy, Devotion explores the heroic acts of Jesse and his best friend and Wingman Tom Hudner who helped turn the tide in one of the most brutal standoffs in the Korean War.
They both provided crucial air support to US troops pinned down by the Korean forces which made both of them the most celebrated fighter pilots in the history of the United States Navy.
9. The Greatest Beer Run Ever
- Release Date– September 23, 2022
- Cast– Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Bill Murray, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Archie Renaux, Jake Picking, Paul Adelstein, Will Hochman
- Director– Peter Farrelly
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.8/43%
Bringing to life the most heroic and absurd act of the American spirit, The Greatest Beer Run Ever brings to life the almost unbelievable real-life story of John “Chickie” Donohue who traveled to Vietnam not armed with weapons but a rucksack full of beer cans with the motive of tracking down his army buddies and sharing a cold one with them.
The only intention Chickie had in mind was to show the US troops that there were people back home in America who stood behind their troops and were eagerly waiting for them to come back home.
10. The Family Plan
- Release Date– December 15, 2023
- Cast– Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti, Maggie Q, Van Crosby, Ciarán Hinds, Joyner Lucas
- Director- Simon Cellan Jones
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.3/23%
The Family Plan revolves around an ex-Government assassin named Dan who has put down his guns and has retired with his family of a wife and three children. However, his past comes crawling back to him and that’s when he rounds up his family, packs them in a mini-van, and goes on a vacation in Las Vegas to escape the people trying to hunt him down. This movie is an action-packed and fun watch that will keep you hooked till the very end.
11. Palmer
- Release Date– January 29, 2021
- Cast– Justin Timberlake, Ryder Allen, Alisha Wainwright, Juno Temple, June Squibb
- Director– Fisher Stevens
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7.3/ 72%
If you are into watching movies with heartwarming themes, Palmer is a movie that is quite literally handcrafted for you. This movie revolves around Eddie Palmer, a former High School football star who was sent to prison for 12 years for an attempted murder. After he is released, he moves in with his grandmother and joins a school as a janitor.
Palmer’s grandmother sometimes looks after a young boy named Sam whose mother is a drug addict and is abusive towards him. When Palmer’s grandmother passes away, the responsibility of looking after Sam falls upon him. Initially, Palmer had no interest in looking after the boy but eventually strikes a friendship with Sam then helps him to heal his emotional wounds.
12. Fingernails
- Release Date– August 31, 2023
- Cast– Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Allen White, Riz Ahmed, Nina Kiri, Luke Wilson, Annie Murphy
- Director– Christos Nikou
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 5.8/ 60%
Fingernails fit somewhere between the science fiction and romantic genre. This movie introduces us to Anna who is having massive second thoughts about her long-time partner and thinks that he might not be the one for her. To get an answer to this turmoil in her mind, she secretly starts an assignment working at a mysterious institute that uses technology to find the presence of love between two individuals but can technology really answer the complex question of love that accurately?
13. Sharper
- Release Date– February 17, 2023
- Cast– Sebastian Stan, Julianne Moore, Briana Middleton, Justice Smith, John Lithgow, Phillip Johnson Richardson
- Director– Benjamin Caron
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.7/ 68%
Sharper brings us the character of Sandy, a young woman in the business of conning people in partnership with Max, an expert conman. The movie’s plot revolves around her conning multiple people before bumping into Tom, the son of an extremely wealthy man named Richard. Now, if I tell you a lot about the plot, it will ruin the suspense and twists for you, So, to learn more about it, I recommend you watch this movie on Apple TV+ and find out for yourself.
14. Causeway
- Release Date– September 10, 2022
- Cast– Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Harvard
- Director– Lila Neugebauer
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 6.6/ 85%
After suffering a traumatic injury in the line of duty during her deployment in Afghanistan, Lynsey returns to her hometown to recover from her injuries and mental scars. However, she struggles to fit back into society with her mother and is looking forward to being redeployed. Among all this, she strikes an unlikely friendship with a local mechanic James who becomes a source of comfort for her. This movie shows us the journey of healing Lynsey goes through, which is truly heartwarming to watch.
15. The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Release Date– December 25, 2021
- Cast– Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Kathryn Hunter, Harry Melling, Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Bertie Carvel, Moses Ingram
- Director– Joel Coen
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes- 7.1/ 93%
“All Hail Macbeth Who Shall Be King” You might remember this from your English class when Shakespeare’s Macbeth was being taught to you. Apple TV+ brings you a live-action adaptation of this wonderful text in one of the best possible ways. Macbeth revolves around the tale of a general who encounters three witches who give him the prophecy that one day he will be King. Corrupted by this and under the influence of Lady Macbeth’s persuasions, Macbeth walks down a dark path that only leads to murder and disasters.
